Thursday, November 7, 2013

2 Poems, by Rob Sullivan


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Friday just past
noon
a hint of magic
is carried
on the wind

it's been
traveling
since the earth
cooled
and the seas
formed

muses make 
music
to amuse
and tickle
fancies free

they call for us
they sing
their songs

an invitation
to the dance
to the laughter
to this life
to great love

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when your heart
shatters
beyond recognition
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when negligence
and cruelty
assail you
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when friends shapeshift
or disappear
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when loneliness
will not 
leave you
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when the three
times mist
into illusion
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when hope fails 
when mercy is gone
when love's lost
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to heaven and earth

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to gaiety and mirth

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to the sweetest
surrender

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until you can remember

good will best 
evil

victory
we will
win most sure
right and pure

then on some shining day
all voices as one
will say

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